Principal/LeadDesigner,DesignPractice

GovTech is the lead agency driving Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives and public sector digital transformation. As the Centre of Excellence for Infocomm Technology and Smart Systems (ICT & SS), GovTech develops the Singapore Government’s capabilities in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Application Development, Smart City Technology, Digital Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity. At GovTech, we offer you a purposeful career to make lives better where we empower our people to master their craft through robust learning and development opportunities all year round. Play a part in Singapore’s vision to build a Smart Nation and embark on your meaningful journey to build tech for public good. Join us to advance our mission and shape your future with us today! Learn more about GovTech at tech.gov.sg. GovTech's Design Practice is the central design team for the agency, responsible for the standards, culture, and capabilities that design teams across government rely on. We have more to do than we have people to do it, and that's the opportunity. As a Principal Designer, you'd work across the full range of what the practice is building: from shaping design standards and the product-first playbook, to supporting new product teams as they stand up, to growing design talent and the community that connects designers across government. The exact shape of your work will flex with the practice's priorities and your own strengths. What stays constant is the seniority of the problems and the room to lead. [What you will be working on] You'd take on initiatives across the areas the practice is responsible for. Depending on where the need is greatest and where you're strongest, that could mean: Helping shape design standards and the product-first playbook that other practices build around Supporting new product teams as they form, helping their leads find their footing and their teams build a strong design culture Standing up the systems the practice runs on: hiring processes, role